Alissa Cardone | Kinodance Company
Choreography of Elements: An Artist Presentation
April 12, 2011 @ 12pm Kaufman room 160
Alissa Cardone, choreographer and co-founder of the intermedia performance collaborative, Kinodance, will give an overview of her MFA portfolio projects, sharing footage from recent touring engagements, and inviting feedback and discussion about the work.
Alissa Cardone, interdisciplinary choreographer, improviser, curator, her work has been supported by Baryshnikov Arts Center/Summer Stages Dance Residency Program, Asian Cultural Council, Massachusetts Cultural Council, LEF Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding (Armenia), Open Society Institute (S. Caucasus), CEC Artslink, Boston Cyberarts, VT Performance Labs and New England Foundation for the Arts. Co-artistic director of internationally acclaimed intermedia performance collaborative Kinodance Company, she's toured nationally and abroad in Japan, Peru, Russia, France, Belgium, Monaco and Armenia and has been presented as a solo artist by Maison Moet Dance Festival/Spiral Hall (Japan), Soundscape (N. Carolina), Gloucester New Arts, DancenowNYC, Soundfield and Bowerbird (Philadelphia). Influenced by trainings in Japan with Min Tanaka (Body Weather Farm) and intensive study and performance engagements with butoh master Akira Kasai, she has collaborated and performed with choreographers such as Xavier Le Roy, Ann Carlson, Paula Josa-Jones, Nora Chipaumire and musicians such as Roger Miller, Masakatsu Takagi, guitarist Chris Brokaw, Tatsuya Nakatani, Mike Bullock, Gene Coleman/Ensemble N_JP and noise artist Jessica Rylan. Alissa is founding director of Critical Moves Contemporary Dance Series (Boston) and co-founder and curator of Boston Cyberarts' Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement and Technology.
Kinodance Company, selected by Dance Magazine's "25-to-watch" in 2008
is an artist collaborative founded in Boston by choreographer Alissa Cardone, filmmaker Alla Kovgan and visual artist Dedalus Wainwright out of passion for the kinetic arts, experimentation and a strong belief in the power of interdisciplinary collaborations.
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